Wednesday 29th
January
On our way out of
Westport we drove around to Cape Foulwind yes a little blowy, no
wonder they had to have a lighthouse there, the rocks were lethal to
any ships, there was a seal colony, and we walked around the headland
to it.
Rod then realised that he had left the fleece (that I had bought him for Christmas) back at the camp site, so we had to go back to pick it up. We then head down the bendy coast road, beautiful scenery and tight bends all the way Punakaiki.
What is so beautiful is the road side everywhere is covered in flowers, along this road were banks and banks of bright orange crocosmia, and in other places orange lillies, and like Oz last year every house you see have swaythes of white and purple Allium.
Rod then realised that he had left the fleece (that I had bought him for Christmas) back at the camp site, so we had to go back to pick it up. We then head down the bendy coast road, beautiful scenery and tight bends all the way Punakaiki.
What is so beautiful is the road side everywhere is covered in flowers, along this road were banks and banks of bright orange crocosmia, and in other places orange lillies, and like Oz last year every house you see have swaythes of white and purple Allium,
We stopped for lunch
and walked around the Pancake Rocks and blow holes, but the blow hole
were declining to blow for us today.
We found a campsite
just outside a small town called Hokitika, which is famous for it's
carving of green stone, the local jade, which is much respected in
Maori tradition.
Camp site at Hokitika
After we had set camp,
a freight train came right by the site and blew its horn very loud, I
nearly had a heart attack. Luckily we were told the next train
wouldn't be until 6am the next morning.... oh joy I shall look
forward to that with anticipation.
6? Are there two of them in one day?
ReplyDeleteSounds like fun though ...